Zachary Beckstead
Biographic Data
| ID | 631203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary Beckstead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary |
| FAMILY NAME | Beckstead |
| SIGNATURE | BECKSTEAD Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Politics in Transitional Spaces: Direct and Indirect Political Participation
Approaching the ineffable: Synthesizing discursive and nondiscursive approaches in the study of religion
Religion is a fascinating, complex, and relatively neglected topic in the field of psychology. It is a topic that is challenging for psychologists, who have historically tended to be less religious than the world’s population on average, and the wider public to feel neutral about. The resurgence of interest in religion in the field of psychology not coincidently matches the interest of religion and spirituality in wider society, especially in the…
Cultural Psychology of Recursive Processes
Cultural Psychology of Recursivity illustrates how recursivity, often neglected in the social sciences, can be an important concept for illuminating meaning-making processes. Recusrivity is a fascinating though abstract concept with a wide array of often incompatible definitions. Rooted in mathematics and linguistics, this book brings recursion and recursive processes to the foreground of psychological processes. One unifying claim among the dive…
Cultural objects in a transforming world
Individuals and groups exist in tension between the present ( as-is) based on the past ( as-was) and the future ( as-could-be). As with individuals, the fate and trajectory of groups are uncertain, tenuous and open to constant change since they are open-systems relating to their environment. In spite of the open and flexible nature of groups, they are also quasi-stable systems that need to maintain their steady-state. Individuals, scholars and no…
Cultural psychology of recursive processes
Collective remembering through the materiality and organization of war memorials
This article investigates how material objects fit into societal discourses of remembering; the authors focus on how the spatial and material composition of objects can affect subjects, thus suggesting particular meanings and engagements. In particular, they investigate war memorials as cultural objects and products of social discourses, but emphasize that the memorials are not reducible to these discourses. Rather, the materials used in the crea…
Commentary: Liminality in Acculturation and Pilgrimage: When Movement Becomes Meaningful
Movement entails both local/short-term and distant/long-term journeys to unfamiliar lands. Psychology has traditionally neglected human-beings-on-the-move to concentrate on fixed structures. Overcoming this oversight, acculturation studies shed light on human beings crossing boundaries, and the authors of these articles bring up the positive side of acculturation (without leaving out the ambivalence). I want to elaborate on these insights in the …
Shifting Loyalties: Reconsidering Psychology’s Subject Matter
Collective remembering through the materiality and organization of war memorials
This article investigates how material objects fit into societal discourses of remembering; the authors focus on how the spatial and material composition of objects can affect subjects, thus suggesting particular meanings and engagements. In particular, they investigate war memorials as cultural objects and products of social discourses, but emphasize that the memorials are not reducible to these discourses. Rather, the materials used in the crea…
Commentary: Liminality in Acculturation and Pilgrimage: When Movement Becomes Meaningful
Movement entails both local/short-term and distant/long-term journeys to unfamiliar lands. Psychology has traditionally neglected human-beings-on-the-move to concentrate on fixed structures. Overcoming this oversight, acculturation studies shed light on human beings crossing boundaries, and the authors of these articles bring up the positive side of acculturation (without leaving out the ambivalence). I want to elaborate on these insights in the …
Politics in Transitional Spaces: Direct and Indirect Political Participation
Shifting Loyalties: Reconsidering Psychology’s Subject Matter
Shifting Loyalties: Reconsidering Psychology’s Subject Matter
Commentary: Liminality in Acculturation and Pilgrimage: When Movement Becomes Meaningful
Movement entails both local/short-term and distant/long-term journeys to unfamiliar lands. Psychology has traditionally neglected human-beings-on-the-move to concentrate on fixed structures. Overcoming this oversight, acculturation studies shed light on human beings crossing boundaries, and the authors of these articles bring up the positive side of acculturation (without leaving out the ambivalence). I want to elaborate on these insights in the …
Collective remembering through the materiality and organization of war memorials
This article investigates how material objects fit into societal discourses of remembering; the authors focus on how the spatial and material composition of objects can affect subjects, thus suggesting particular meanings and engagements. In particular, they investigate war memorials as cultural objects and products of social discourses, but emphasize that the memorials are not reducible to these discourses. Rather, the materials used in the crea…
Cultural Psychology of Recursive Processes
Cultural Psychology of Recursivity illustrates how recursivity, often neglected in the social sciences, can be an important concept for illuminating meaning-making processes. Recusrivity is a fascinating though abstract concept with a wide array of often incompatible definitions. Rooted in mathematics and linguistics, this book brings recursion and recursive processes to the foreground of psychological processes. One unifying claim among the dive…
Cultural objects in a transforming world
Individuals and groups exist in tension between the present ( as-is) based on the past ( as-was) and the future ( as-could-be). As with individuals, the fate and trajectory of groups are uncertain, tenuous and open to constant change since they are open-systems relating to their environment. In spite of the open and flexible nature of groups, they are also quasi-stable systems that need to maintain their steady-state. Individuals, scholars and no…
Cultural psychology of recursive processes
Approaching the ineffable: Synthesizing discursive and nondiscursive approaches in the study of religion
Religion is a fascinating, complex, and relatively neglected topic in the field of psychology. It is a topic that is challenging for psychologists, who have historically tended to be less religious than the world’s population on average, and the wider public to feel neutral about. The resurgence of interest in religion in the field of psychology not coincidently matches the interest of religion and spirituality in wider society, especially in the…
Politics in Transitional Spaces: Direct and Indirect Political Participation
Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Community Health and Development (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Representations and Identity (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)